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Distribution of Active Users in OpenStreetMap – Oct-Nov 2012
Two years ago, we created some maps which showed you the number of users per country for a timeframe of one month. Maybe some of you remember that the highest concentration of active contributors in relation to the countries’ population …
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Overhauling “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?”
My last update about the HDYC website is a few months old now. For those readers who do not know what HDYC is: “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?” is a webpage which shows you in detail how long, when, where a member of the OSM project contributed to the project and which tools she/he…
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I Like OpenStreetMap (OpenLayers Plugin)
A few months ago, Frederik Ramm posted an idea on the German OpenStreetMap mailing list about a new (stochastic) approach to OSM data quality assurance. His idea was to create a way to allow users to “like” or “dislike” a specific region on the OSM map …
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New OSM Contributor Feed
The OpenStreetMap project keeps attracting more and more new members that register and start contributing their data to the project. In one of my last blog posts I presented a website which shows the location …
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OSM-GPS-Grid-Map
More than 6 weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about “Which country has the most OpenStreetMap GPS Points?”. You might remember that Russia and Germany provide the most OSM GPS points. Now, in a second step I created a worldwide grid …
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Where are the new OpenStreetMap Contributors?
Since past Friday the OpenStreetMap project has more than 600 000 registered members. As many of you may know, not every new registered member starts contributing to the project right away. Based on my “How did you contribute to OSM?” database I created a small (but neat) webpage …
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Which country has the most OpenStreetMap GPS Points?
Some of you might already know that OpenStreetMap released a first bulk GPS point dataset last week. It contains almost 2.8 milliard (or for readers in the US 2.8 billion) points and is provided in its raw format …
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Welcome to the new OpenStreetMap Contributors! The beginning of a radical change?
Many blog posts reported in the past few weeks about Google’s changes to their Google Maps API and the new usage limits. If a website that implemented the Google Maps API receives too much traffic or hits e.g. more than 25,000 per day, charges will apply. This news caused some websites to start looking for…
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What Impact has the OSM License Change in Germany on the Street Network Length? – 1st Attempt –
The OpenStreetMap project will possibly finalize its license change on April 1st 2012. There are certain concerns in the community about possible data losses and to keep them as little as possible…
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What type of Mapper are You?
Last weekend Frederik and Richard asked me if I could give some additional information on the „How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?“ webpage …